Vast vs. Vest — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Vast and Vest
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Vast
Very great in size, extent, or quantity.
Vest
Chiefly British An undershirt.
Vast
Very great in scope or import
A vast improvement.
Vest
A sleeveless garment, often having buttons down the front, worn usually over a shirt or blouse and sometimes as part of a three-piece suit.
Vast
An immense space.
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Vest
A waist-length, sleeveless garment worn for protection
A warm down vest.
A bulletproof vest.
Vast
Very large or wide (literally or figuratively).
The Sahara desert is vast.
There is a vast difference between them.
Vest
A fabric trim worn to fill in the neckline of a woman's garment; a vestee.
Vast
Very great in size, amount, degree, intensity, or especially extent.
Vest
(Obsolete) An ecclesiastical vestment.
Vast
(obsolete) Waste; desert; desolate; lonely.
Vest
To place (authority, property, or rights, for example) in the control of a person or group, especially to give someone an immediate right to present or future possession or enjoyment of (an estate, for example). Used with in
Vested his estate in his daughter.
Vast
(poetic) A vast space.
Vest
To invest or endow (a person or group) with something, such as power or rights. Used with with
Vested the council with broad powers.
Vests its employees with full pension rights after five years of service.
Vast
Waste; desert; desolate; lonely.
The empty, vast, and wandering air.
Vest
To clothe or robe, as in ecclesiastical vestments.
Vast
Of great extent; very spacious or large; also, huge in bulk; immense; enormous; as, the vast ocean; vast mountains; the vast empire of Russia.
Through the vast and boundless deep.
Vest
To become legally vested
Stock options that vest after the second year of employment.
Vast
Very great in numbers, quantity, or amount; as, a vast army; a vast sum of money.
Vest
To dress oneself, especially in ecclesiastical vestments.
Vast
Very great in force; mighty; as, vast labor.
Vest
(North America) A sleeveless garment that buttons down the front, worn over a shirt, and often as part of a suit; a waistcoat.
Vast
Very great in importance; as, a subject of vast concern.
Vest
(British) A sleeveless garment, often with a low-cut neck, usually worn under a shirt or blouse.
Vast
A waste region; boundless space; immensity.
Michael bid soundThe archangel trumpet. Through the vast of heavenIt sounded.
Vest
A sleeveless top, typically with identifying colours or logos, worn by an athlete or member of a sports team.
Vast
Unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope;
Huge government spending
Huge country estates
Huge popular demand for higher education
A huge wave
The Los Angeles aqueduct winds like an immense snake along the base of the mountains
Immense numbers of birds
At vast (or immense) expense
The vast reaches of outer space
The vast accumulation of knowledge...which we call civilization
Vest
Any sleeveless outer garment, often for a purpose such as identification, safety, or storage.
Vest
A vestment.
Vest
Clothing generally; array; garb.
Vest
A loose robe or outer garment worn historically by men in Arab or Middle Eastern countries.
Vest
(chiefly passive) To clothe with, or as with, a vestment, or garment; to dress; to robe; to cover, surround, or encompass closely.
Vest
To clothe with authority, power, etc.; to put in possession; to invest; to furnish; to endow; followed by with and the thing conferred.
To vest a court with power to try cases of life and death
Vest
To place or give into the possession or discretion of some person or authority; to commit to another; with in before the possessor.
The power of life and death is vested in the king, or in the courts.
Vest
(legal) To clothe with possession; also, to give a person an immediate fixed right of present or future enjoyment of.
To vest a person with an estate
An estate is vested in possession
Vest
(of an inheritance or a trust fund) To devolve upon the person currently entitled when a prior interest has ended.
Upon the death of the Sovereign the Crown automatically vests in the next heir without the need of coronation or other formality.
Vest
To become vested, to become permanent.
My pension vests at the end of the month and then I can take it with me when I quit.
Vest
(obsolete) To invest; to put.
To vest money in goods, land, or houses
Vest
An article of clothing covering the person; an outer garment; a vestment; a dress; a vesture; a robe.
In state attended by her maiden train,Who bore the vests that holy rites require.
Vest
Any outer covering; array; garb.
Not seldom clothed in radiant vestDeceitfully goes forth the morn.
Vest
Specifically, a waistcoat, or sleeveless body garment, for men, worn under the coat.
Vest
To clothe with, or as with, a vestment, or garment; to dress; to robe; to cover, surround, or encompass closely.
Came vested all in white, pure as her mind.
With ether vested, and a purple sky.
Vest
To clothe with authority, power, or the like; to put in possession; to invest; to furnish; to endow; - followed by with before the thing conferred; as, to vest a court with power to try cases of life and death.
Had I been vested with the monarch's power.
Vest
To place or give into the possession or discretion of some person or authority; to commit to another; - with in before the possessor; as, the power of life and death is vested in the king, or in the courts.
Empire and dominion was [were] vested in him.
Vest
To invest; to put; as, to vest money in goods, land, or houses.
Vest
To clothe with possession; as, to vest a person with an estate; also, to give a person an immediate fixed right of present or future enjoyment of; as, an estate is vested in possession.
Vest
To come or descend; to be fixed; to take effect, as a title or right; - followed by in; as, upon the death of the ancestor, the estate, or the right to the estate, vests in the heir at law.
Vest
A man's sleeveless garment worn underneath a coat
Vest
A collarless men's undergarment for the upper part of the body
Vest
Provide with power and authority;
They vested the council with special rights
Vest
Place (authority, property, or rights) in the control of a person or group of persons;
She vested her vast fortune in her two sons
Vest
Become legally vested;
The property vests in the trustees
Vest
Clothe oneself in ecclesiastical garments
Vest
Clothe formally; especially in ecclesiastical robes
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